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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I run award-winning agency InsideOut PR (established 2005) and founded social influencer agency #AsSeenOn last year. Thanks to Nicole Reaney, InsideOut PR ! #10 I was already working at a startup, learning about marketing and PR. Thanks to Judy Sahay, Crowd Media ! #9 9 – Shift in Media Landscape.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Generally the rights of citizens are protected by The Constitution and by the government.” “I

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. The watershed moment in entrepreneurship becoming more science than art as probably Eric Ries’s publication of The Lean Startup in 2011 (although some would argue for Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005).

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Boosting the French Tech Ecosystem

Cracking the Code

Change France’s image with a strong PR message about a new law favoring start-ups France is mostly known abroad for the 35-hour week, and the 75% tax rate it tried to introduce (and was fortunately considered unconstitutional). Frederic Mazzella addressing Francois Hollande and John Chambers at the Elysee dinner 4.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages. All of this personal and professional development combined with a deep desire to help others let me to create a business where I draw upon marketing, PR and sales principles to help people find, give and keep love.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) 4] Corollary: Avoid starting a startup to sell things to the biggestcompany of all, the government. Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.

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